آجی

Bakhtiari

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian آبجی (âbji), from Proto-Turkic *bāča. Cognate with Azerbaijani bacı.

Noun

آجی (âji)

1. sister

Synonyms

• (sister): ددو (dedu)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *iāčïg (“bitter”); cognate with Azerbaijani acı, Bashkir асы (ası), Chuvash йӳҫӗ (jüś̬ĕ), Kazakh ащы (aşy), Kyrgyz ачуу (acuu), Turkmen ājy, Uyghur ئاچچىق (achchiq), Uzbek achchiq and Yakut аһыы (ahıı).

Adjective

آجی • (acı)

1. bitter, having an acrid taste, usually from a basic substance

   Synonyms: تلخ (telh), مر (mürr)

2. (of water) brackish, salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water
3. (of words) bitter, reproachful, scathing, harsh, caustic, vitriolic
4. (of sounds) dismal, lugubrious, dreary, cheerless, gloomy

Derived terms

• آجی آغاج (acı ağac, “quassia, bitterwood”)
• آجی الما (acı elma, “colocynth”)
• آجی بادم (acı badem, “bitter almond”)
• آجی دل (acı dil, “reproach, bitter words”)
• آجی سس (acı ses, “unpleasant voice”)
• آجی سوز (acı söz, “bitter words”)
• آجی صو (acı su, “brackish water”)
• آجی مارول (acı marul, “bitter lettuce”)
• آجیجه (acıca, “bitterish”)
• آجیلتمق (acılatmak, “to render a thing bitter”)
• آجیلق (acılık, “bitterness”)
• آجیلنمق (acılanmak, “to become bitter”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: acı
• Turkish: acı
• → Armenian: աճի (ači) — Constantinople

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “acı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 91
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 10b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 7
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Amarus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 54
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 69
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “acı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 31